Since the amount of Asian music videos that I have had reached a critical point, I had to go out and buy a new hard drive today. I thought I’d use this one solely for Asian music — especially for K-Pop, which fills up disks pretty quickly with all the high-definition material out there.

This is the one I picked out. It seemed fitting for the task at hand. Writing a “K-Pop” label on this disk would be kind of redundant .

(It’s a Samsung G2 Portable 500GB Coral Blue)

On Friday I got a X-mas present that I bought for myself

It’s a new laptop! An Asus UL30Vt. It’s one of those “super slim, but still not a netbook” kind of laptops. I didn’t want a netbook, since I mean to use it as my main computer, so the screen can’t be any smaller than this (yes, I’m writing this on the UL30 ).

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A few weeks ago I bought a Panasonic SC-HC3 (it just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) sound system.

It’s a pretty neat “micro system” that has radio, CD and iPod docking. It has a motorized sliding door which opens to the right if you want to access the iPod dock and to the left for the CD. The door is transparent (smoked) in front of the iPod, so you can see the iPod’s display through it.

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I have been resisting the iPod for a long time. Mainly because of how “locked in” it is with its iTunes requirement (I know there are alternative programs).

One morning I was on my way to work and was listening to music on my cellphone… or at least I was trying to. The headphone adapter came off one time and the phone thought I had pressed the hands-free button three times. I had had enough.

I went looking for a new MP3-player on my lunch break and, as it turns out, the selection is horrifyingly small where I live, so I decided to go against my principles and get an iPod.

I got the latest Nano. I was going to get a 16 GB version, but they didn’t have the colour I wanted at the Apple store, so I got an 8 GB version instead. I also went back later to buy a pack of “iPod socks” (the sock in the picture is supposed to be green - the lighting conditions weren’t exactly ideal when I took the photo)

So far, I can say that iTunes works great with podcasts, and sub-par at basically everything else. I activated the “sound check” feature which caused iTunes to raise the volume of a few random songs by 100% for no apparent reason. […] there’s more! »

I’ve written previously about the iRobot Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner that I bought in November 2006. I’ve had it replaced once (broken speaker) and repaired once (dead battery) within its two year warranty.

Recently the Roomba stopped working again. Yesterday I did some diagnostics and it turned out that the right outer cliff sensor wasn’t working properly. The infra-red detector was working (it reacted to the beam from a virtual wall), but the emitter wasn’t… emitting. I could tell by looking through my digital camera, which picks up infra-red light.

I didn’t want to buy a new Roomba, since they’re quite expensive. And the problem annoyed me since I don’t even need a cliff sensor. I live in a one floor apartment.

The warranty period had passed last year, so I took out a screwdriver and […] there’s more! »

Today I picked up my long awaited Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightStick for my PS3. I’ve never played with an arcade stick before, only regular hand controllers, so it was a bit weird getting used to how to push the buttons.

As soon as I started using the stick I started to suck (or suck slightly more perhaps) because I couldn’t […] there’s more! »

Today I got my the Audio Technica ATH-EQ300M WH headphones that I ordered about a week and a half ago from Korea. This is presumably the same model of headphones that BoA wears in her Eien PV.

The headphones came in a rediculously large box, so I thought I’d post some unboxing pics

Hmm, isn’t this box a bit large for shipping a pair of headphones?

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After watching BoA’s Eien PV, I have been wondering what kind of headphones she was wearing. They look pretty neat.

I’ve been meaning to get new headphones because the ones I have (Sennheiser PXC-250), although fine to use on the train, aren’t all that portable. I was looking at the Koss KSC-75 headphones. I’m sure they sound good enough, but they’re just not especially attractive.

So, I started looking around for headphone models that look similar to BoA’s. I came up with […] there’s more! »

Today I was in need of a USB stick with a capacity of at least 4 GB to transport some files. I have a 2 GB stick, but it was at home, so I thought that I would buy a new one. Then it hit me that I could just as well buy a new memory stick for the PSP. I’ve been meaning to get one for ages, and I usually have the PSP with me in my bag anyway.

I bought a Sandisk 8 GB memory stick M2 ultra: […] there’s more! »

I rearranged my TV bench yesterday. I removed my VCR and the laptop is no longer connected to the TV for viewing downloaded videos. I moved the DVD player up one floor and moved the PS2 to the side. It almost looks as if I was clearing space for something. What could it be?